The Business Aviation Quiz: Aviation Alphabetting

April 03, 2020

Do you know what the letters in aircraft names represent? Could you correctly guess the origin or certain air traffic terms? With too many acronyms to count within the aviation industry, how well do you know you aviation ABCs? 

Test your knowledge in this week’s quiz?

What do the letters of Daher’s TBM represent?

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Were you right?

It began as a joint project of Aerospatiale, whose models carried the prefix TB, and Mooney, which used M.

Why’s it called “radar”?

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Were you right?

A military acronym for RAdio Detecting And Ranging.

What is the reason that Leonardo’s 609 tiltrotor is prefaced with “AW”?

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Were you right?

Leonardo evolved from AgustaWestland.

There’s Jet A, B and C, yes?

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Were you right?

A & B, yes, but no C - unless you mean Jet C Inflight Catering that serves private jets within the Macau market.

Signature Flight Support’s owner is named BBA. Why? 

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Were you right?

The company was once British Belting & Asbestos, Ltd.

How did you get on?

Test your industry knowledge more in the previous Business Aviation weekly quizzes.

The Business Aviation Quiz Library

Do you know what the letters in aircraft names represent? Could you correctly guess the origin or certain air traffic terms? With too many acronyms to count within the aviation industry, how well do you know you aviation ABCs?

 

This quiz was first published in April 3, 2020.

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